Start Seeing Art on MNSpeak
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 Posted in Art, Company News, Twin Cities | No Comments »My little side project, Start Seeing Art, made it on the Twin Cities blog MNSpeak today. I'm pretty excited about the exposure. And a little frightened--though so far no one has mocked the rudimentary design, and for that I'm thankful.
Sign Your Name, Stop Human Trafficking
Saturday, January 26th, 2008 Posted in Society | 1 Comment »Stop the Traffik, an organization that fights human trafficking across the world, is collecting signatures to present to the UN in February urging them to do more to stop human trafficking. If they can collect one million signatures then they ...
Busy Week at Start Seeing Art
Saturday, January 26th, 2008 Posted in Art, Company News, Twin Cities | No Comments »Last week I was all excited to announce that Start Seeing Art had mapped 100 works of public art across the Twin Cities (if 'across' means primarily in St. Paul). But in the past week alone we've added 25 more ...
Furnace Out in January
Friday, January 25th, 2008 Posted in Domicile | 1 Comment »Our furnace went out last night. It was two degrees outside and 60 degrees in our living room when I went to bed. We brought Lexi upstairs to sleep with us. This morning it's one degree above zero outside and 50 ...
MLK Day Link Round Up
Monday, January 21st, 2008 Posted in Internet | No Comments »A few random links I came across today thanks to Twitter: Something Smart: Seth Godin suggesting digital rentals should be dirt cheap. Something Challenging: 12 Ways to Make MLK's Dream a Reality. Something Funny: Life and Death of Design (nothing should ever be ...
Start Seeing Art Hits 100
Saturday, January 19th, 2008 Posted in Art, Company News, Twin Cities | No Comments »My little side project, Start Seeing Art--which maps and identifies public art in the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis--hit 100 yesterday. The site has now mapped 100 pieces of public artwork. It's been a fun little project. I've really ...
A Refrigerator Seems Silly When it’s Below Zero
Saturday, January 19th, 2008 Posted in Domicile | 2 Comments »It's currently 11 degrees below zero. The expected high today is 2 degrees below zero. Wind chill could be -35 to -45. So it struck me as odd this morning when I felt a rush of cold air from the fridge ...
Foursquare NextGen Summit ‘07: Quotes
Friday, January 18th, 2008 Posted in God, Church & Stuff | 3 Comments »A couple weeks ago I headed out to Anaheim, Calif., for the Foursquare NextGen Summit '07, a cause-oriented youth event that I did a lot of writing for. I'm not generally a fan of high-energy, emotional events, but I did ...
Twitter: Communicate 140 Bits at a Time
Friday, January 18th, 2008 Posted in Internet | 1 Comment »I've been playing with Twitter a lot the past week or so. What is Twitter? I don't know--ask Wikipedia. Twitter is kind of like mini-blogging because you're limited to 140 characters, but the updates are also broadcast all over the ...
2007 Reading List
Friday, January 18th, 2008 Posted in Books | No Comments »Back by popular demand (cue crickets) is my annual reading list. 2007 was shaping up to be a terrible year for reading, but then I went on a sci-fi kick and doubled my reading output in a few months. Then ...
